From: Mikko Lyly <[email protected]>
Subject: [Elmerupdates] ElmerGUI release announcement
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 11:06:44 +0300
Dear Elmer user,
We are pleased to announce the release of ElmerGUI, the new graphical user
interface and pre-processor for Elmer.
The new pre-processor is intended to replace the old software component,
ElmerFront, which is no longer supported.
Compared to ElmerFront, the new pre-processor has
o Enhanced mesh generation and mesh manipulation tools
o Enhanced visualization routines (based on OpenGL and extensions)
o Better compatibility with the latest Solver
o 100% programmable/customizable menu entries for equations, materials,
etc.
ElmerGUI is able to utilize the following mesh generators:
o ElmerGrid (built-in)
o Netgen (plugin)
o Tetgen (plugin)
The source code of ElmerGUI is available from the subversion repository of
project "elmerfem" at SF.net:
svn co https://elmerfem.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/elmerfem elmerfem
The source code and installation instructions can be found from the directory
elmerfem/trunk/misc/Mesh3D
Compilation instructions for the Netgen- and Tetgen-plugins can be found from
the directories
elmerfem/trunk/misc/netgen_patches
elmerfem/trunk/misc/tetgen_patches
There is also a binary distribution available for Windows XP
(Elmer-svn2997_gfortran.exe):
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=147815
The binary installer contains the Netgen-plugin for ElmerGUI. The
Tetgen-plugin is not included in the
distribution (the user who wants to use Tetgen should consult Tetgen's site
for a licence and compile the
plugin from source). Sample input files are available in the fdneut, grd, and
stl subdirectories in
C:\Elmer5.4\samples\ElmerGUI\samples
A very small tutorial on the basic usage of ElmerGUI is available from the
Wiki-pages at
http://elmerfem.wiki.sourceforge.net/
More detailed documentation and tutorials will follow.
Best regards,
Mikko Lyly
Juha Ruokolainen
Peter Råback
